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by glesica 14y ago
FWIW, I installed the KDE version of Linux Mint on my desktop machine the other day (Cinnamon was still a little too rough around the edges) and I've been quite pleased. The only trouble I've run into is that KDE is still rather resource-in
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by glesica 14y ago
I will second this. I have the same machine, the aspect ratio is completely obnoxious for anything productive. Not wide enough for two decently sized windows side-by-side, and cramped vertically. UGH.
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by glesica 14y ago
You seem to agree with me that there is a continuum of horrific treatment, a bolt to the head and hung up by a leg being worse than being "put down". I agree with that. I also agree that eating meat and claiming to be in favor of animal rig
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by glesica 14y ago
At some point you have to ask yourself if it's more likely that everyone else in the entire world is crazy, or that you might be mistaken. People are not shocked by horrible crimes because of the likelihood of re-offense. They are shocked b
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by glesica 14y ago
So if you eat meat you can't be against pit bull-fighting? That seems like a pretty bad philosophy to me. Extrapolate it further, we shouldn't, then, be more appalled by a gruesome murder (of a human) than a gunshot to the back of the head.
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by glesica 14y ago
That's a tricky question. Start with a different, and probably easier (for many people) question: where do humans get rights? There are many possible answers. Some people think our rights come from God (or gods), others take different appro
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by glesica 14y ago
I would consider your argument if it wasn't for the fact that the farm lobby has been behind similar bills in several states in the past (most recent was Iowa, last summer IIRC). It isn't animal rights activists behind these bills, it is fa
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by glesica 14y ago
Irrelevant unless the company in question was selling ARM-based systems (which is impossible since they refer to Windows 8 as something that has changed in their business model, and previous versions of Windows did not support ARM. So they
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by glesica 14y ago
Agreed, that's why I said "a few bucks a month from a few million users". I can't imagine that more than a couple million of their hundreds of millions of users would pay to remove the ads from their feeds.
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by glesica 14y ago
This seems to me to be the problem. They took too much money to monetize in this way. A few bucks a month from a few million users, plus whatever they can make by occasionally inserting ads into the stream (which can't be that much consid
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by glesica 14y ago
The reason I block ads has more to do with the latency of the ad networks than with the annoyance the ads cause me, which is minimal. I just got sick of some ad network hanging the page. I don't have that problem any more since I started bl
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by glesica 14y ago
It's called email :-)
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by glesica 14y ago
So because you had a bad experience, no one else can share their bad experiences if those experiences somehow conflict with yours? You sound like a cry baby. This woman shared her negative experiences related to abusing Adderall. Note tha
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by glesica 14y ago
I personally don't care what people use it for. My point is that it is primarily good for illicit and "grey market" transactions, and really nothing else. You entire argument demonstrates that you missed my point completely. Why would I buy
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by glesica 14y ago
There's also no way to recover your Bitcoins if they get stolen (as many, many people have discovered already). My credit card on the other hand, can be made whole again with a simple phone call to my bank (YMMV, please no stories about ban
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by glesica 14y ago
> Changing that would require firing everybody who > currently works on the Nook and building a new, > isolated and insulated, business unit elsewhere, > preferably on the other side of the continent, >
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by glesica 14y ago
Illicit plus grey market and a few special cases. Fine, you win the Pedant's Prize for nitpicking. The point is that they don't make a good general-purpose currency. Just because they're awesome for buying drugs and secret VPNs doesn't mean
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by glesica 14y ago
It says to me that there is a large amount of speculation. As a currency, Bitcoin is basically useless except for illicit transactions (which are usually pretty inefficient anyway). Would you use dollars if the value of a dollar could chang
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by glesica 14y ago
It may not be good enough for you to replace your Macbook Air, but it was good enough for the author to forgo a Macbook Air. Subtle, but important difference.
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by glesica 14y ago
This is a really good criticism of the current system. I know someone who attempted to get a sleep study done but insurance denied it. The doctor's response was basically "oh well, looks like there's nothing we can do".
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by glesica 14y ago
Or, more sinister, crops and other agricultural lands. Which would prevent monitoring by environmental groups for run-off control and such.
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by glesica 14y ago
This needs to get more attention (even more than it is already getting). This sort of blatant disregard for anything even approximating "justice" is disgusting and has place in a developed country (it has no place anywhere, really, but a de
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by glesica 14y ago
So kids have to reboot their computers in order to read the textbook? Right, because that will definitely work... You've just blamed DRM and, in the preceding paragraph, fallen victim to the same fallacy that makes DRM look like a good id
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by glesica 14y ago
It sounds like a lot of these problems could have been mitigated in two ways: First, buying compatible hardware (nobody complains that they can't run Mac OS on a Dell, so why do they complain about incompatible hardware on Linux when the Ub
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by glesica 14y ago
I did. Work bought me a Mac. I also bought a personal machine for myself because I liked the idea of being a single-OS kind of guy. A year later I actually switched to using Windows 7 at work because I hated Mac OS so much and I switched ba
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by glesica 14y ago
I just have a hacky Python script that reads each file, runs it through Jinja and spits it out. That is then managed with a makefile. I don't have any dependencies between pages (next, prev links) so there's no need to touch old pages on bu
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by glesica 14y ago
I use a makefile. Only rebuilds the pages that have been added / modified (which, of course is the point of a makefile in general).
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by glesica 14y ago
When adding a single user add more costs than revenue, all growth is negative growth. That's part of the problem with many companies. Page views, traffic, and especially "users" do not necessarily translate into money.
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by glesica 14y ago
I didn't even know who pg was until I'd been using this site for years. So no.
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by glesica 14y ago
OK, that seems reasonable. Viva la market! :-)

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